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The 24 trades made Monday that moved 43 players in the hours before the NHL trading deadline were more strategic than splashy, nothing that justified the hype that has grown around this annual day of reckoning and nothing that will immediately transform a franchise. The price of doing business was hefty — Tampa Bay gave Philadelphia first- and third-round draft picks for Braydon Coburn, a middling defenseman on a bad team — but several teams turned assets into potential postseason depth, led by Detroit, Montreal and the Ducks. Others, like Arizona and Buffalo, conceded the season and looked to the future by collecting prospects and draft picks. "Every year it just goes...

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The 24 trades made Monday that moved 43 players in the hours before the NHL trading deadline were more strategic than splashy, nothing that justified the hype that has grown around this annual day of reckoning and nothing that will immediately transform a...

It's the essence of hockey distilled into one breathless moment: a goaltender, a shooter, and nothing between them but tension and the hopes of thousands of fans, many of them brought to their feet by the dramatic circumstances.
Often mocked as a...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — Long after the good (rocker John Fogerty), the bad (the Kings' white hockey pants) and the perplexing (Melissa Etheridge's cover of Janis Joplin's “Piece of My Heart”) fade away, the latest offering of outdoor hockey will be...

Alex Ovechkin scored twice in the first period to take over the NHL lead in goals, sending the Washington Capitals to a 5-3 victory over the Anaheim Ducks on Sunday. Ovechkin also set up two goals by Andre Burakovsky. Marcus Johansson got the go-ahead...

Times columnist Helene Elliott rates the pluses and minuses in the NHL from the past week:
+ Continuing his remarkable recovery from a stroke, Gordie Howe attended a dinner last week in Saskatoon, Canada, where a rink was named for him. Howe, who will be...

Shaved, shorn and suavely suited, Kings players and staffers gathered onstage in the White House East room Monday and smiled politely as President Obama joked how unfortunate it was that they had defeated his hometown Chicago Blackhawks on the way to...

Kings Coach Darryl Sutter painted a vivid picture when asked last week about his players' struggles to defend their championship.
"They have to keep understanding and listening to what I'm telling them about how tough it is," he said. "The...

The Calgary Flames' season was hanging by a thread when they faced the Kings at Staples Center on Dec. 22. After a strong start, the Flames had fallen into an 0-7-1 slump, the kind of frustration that challenges players' character, belief and patience.
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Ilya Bryzgalov has appeared in three games in net for the Ducks, and Anaheim -- the NHL’s co-leader in points -- has lost in all three cases.
So the importance of Bryzgalov’s start Friday night against a visiting New Jersey Devils team placed sixth in...

January’s grand plan of Ducks Coach Bruce Boudreau is to address all that was ailing the team.
To get healthy.
To tighten up the defensive holes.
To sharpen the offensive precision.
The Ducks have 20 days off this month and have spent at least two...

Playing to the hometown crowd in Columbus, Ohio, the NHL on Wednesday named Nick Foligno of the Blue Jackets as one of two captains for All-Star weekend, Jan. 23-25 in Columbus. The other captain will be Chicago Blackhawks center Jonathan Toews.
Kings...

Times columnist Helene Elliott rates the pluses and minuses in the NHL from the past week:
+ Before heading west to play the Ducks, Kings and Sharks, the New York Rangers said they saw the trip as a measuring stick for where they stand. Now, everyone...

Rule changes and modifications intended to increase scoring did little to pump up goal production during the first half of the season, a point the NHL passed Saturday.
Through Saturday's action (624 games) the goals-per-game average was 5.36, excluding...

Another month, another dose of adversity.
In this case, it was a double dose for the Kings.
The Kings will be without forwards Tanner Pearson and Tyler Toffoli for an indefinite period. Toffoli was diagnosed Friday with mononucleosis and did not play...

Only occasionally this season has General Manager Dean Lombardi seen the Kings resemble the group that blended a strong work ethic, forbidding goaltending and staunch defense to win the Stanley Cup twice in three seasons.
"There's been pockets where...

Instead of a panic button, Ducks forward Patrick Maroon was handed a vote of confidence at practice Friday.
Although Maroon is in the middle of a 15-game goal-less skid that has featured 31 shots getting denied, Ducks Coach Bruce Boudreau placed Maroon...

Pittsburgh Penguins star Sidney Crosby is the latest NHL player to be diagnosed with the mumps, and he will not play Monday against the Tampa Bay Lightning.
The Penguins confirmed Crosby's diagnosis Sunday after the two-time NHL MVP was held out of the...

Ducks defenseman Francois Beauchemin isn’t a doctor, but when he saw the photos of returning NHL MVP Sidney Crosby's facial swelling on social media two nights ago, his diagnosis was immediate.
“Obviously, it looks like mumps symptoms,” Beauchemin told...

The NHL's baffling mumps outbreak added a high-profile patient over the weekend in Pittsburgh Penguins center Sidney Crosby, who practiced and spoke to the media Friday before tests confirmed the diagnosis.
Although the outbreak so far has been...

Times columnist Helene Elliott rates the pluses and minuses in the NHL from the past week:
+ It took a while for the Washington Capitals to adjust to new Ccoach Barry Trotz, but they’ve hit stride and extended their point streak to 7-0-2 after a 2-1...